Everybody is just loving Katie Couric's YouTube channel. That's the sense you might get from Matea Gold's LAT profile of her Web 2.0 efforts, which quotes commenters saying things like, "Love to see the real katie. . . . not the behind the desk robot." (That's an expression of "delight," says Gold. To us, that's a bandhanded way of saying, "Way to use the upload button.")

"Filmed at a time of feverish speculation about how much longer she will stay on the third-place broadcast," writes Gold, "the videos offer a jarring contrast to the recent spate of stories about the grim situation on the CBS Evening News. In the clips, she chortles and grins widely, whether she's teasing photographers from the New York Post, singing in her SUV or sitting shoeless on the floor of her office talking to mommy bloggers."

Or, um, singing with Bette Midler, which incidentally is Couric's most-watched video on her channel, with 171k views. It is not, however, the most-watched overall video of Couric. That honor goes to a 2006 Redneck TV spot, though to be fair, the clip talks about a lot of things non-Couric. The second-most watched YouTube video of her, meanwhile, is a CBS-uploaded clip of her Michael J. Fox interview.

And third on that list – and, really, the most "actually about Katie video not provided by CBS corporate" – is, not surprisingly, a little video that made the rounds at the end of last year. You know which one we're talking about.

The infamous Dan Rather video:

Here's the full list of Couric videos on YouTube, from most-watched and on down.